#We could have a garden...

[moeblob]

Sorry I forgot Hanneman suggested Byleth undress after they show up with a different hair color. And I miss Hanneman. And also while swapping between Houses and Hopes and seeing Hanneman pop up to help in a Hopes paralogue is just devastating since he doesn't ever actually join you at all and I am denied my old man rights.

So I had to draw this. Thank you for understanding.

#fe three houses #byleth #hanneman von essar #i like that Byleth just kinda stares at him and he realizes WHAT HE SAID and the implications and is like #step back uh forget that I said that #like man so zoned in on research he blurts that out and has to backtrack mentally to AH socially bad to say that my bad #if i need to tag this as anything lemme know even though it is a conversation in game basically (minus the marriage) #also if you have never married hanneman i genuinely enjoyed his s support and was VERY surprised and hes just #honestly one of my favorites overall in 3h ?? and im still bummed i cant play as him in thropes like thats just mean #also i think if byleth was like oh well if its awkward to see someone undress randomly #then marriage would solve the awkwardness this is truly the best deduction #which is really funny that i can see it happening with both leths despite my hc of them #with fyleth as bi and myleth as ace i think both would just be like AH cool we can avoid awkwardness by marriage #and hanneman just wants to go lie down in a ditch because he said something like that #and and byleth doesnt even know about religion while working at church school they dont know about school regulations #that wasnt really on their mind to check ok just saying you could tell byleth no to something #and then they just go oh school policies i understand unfortunately #and the person is like no we just meant its frowned upon to do archery practice in the tea garden its not technically illegal just dont??

[dimsilver]

over the garden wall / till we have faces by c.s. lewis

#basically I just could not stop thinking about this #two brothers #the younger forced to complete impossible tasks by the elder’s apathy/lack of love for him #two sisters #the younger forced to complete impossible tasks because of the elder’s jealous overpossessive love for her #both greg and psyche stay cheerful and complete the tasks with ease #while wirt and orual bear the anguish and horror of the struggle with evil #bonus: orual is ungit. wirt’s not the beast in the same way but he does have to confront his own darkness first #(I was never any good to him alive either) #over the garden wall #till we have faces #web weaving

[venti-death-watch]

yknow. i wonder if yanqing is "divine" in some way. i don't think he's halorian (despite the divine/angel/bird/wings/song/music theming) or vidyadhara (unless it's in a bailu "not originally vidyadhara but became so through Shenanigans) because the vibes are Off, but that he's something more like whatever luocha's got going on. like, yanqing 100% has a weird lineage because if he wasn't there'd be no reason for us not to know-- his entire bio parent conflict would've been exactly the same even if we knew his lineage. by pointing it out specifically, you're saying something, yknow.

the disciple of sanctus medicus said "you've come at the right time, little one. we can use your blood... to irrigate the celestial traces." and i... kind of read that as saying he'd replenish the aeons/the divine (?) with his death/sacrifice. in what way, i don't know.

the "heavenly blade's afterimage" title is fascinating to me. considering his connection to the garden of recollection/fuli via what looks like six phased ice, and march's connection and the theory of idrila = march, i kind of wonder if yanqing is a part of an aeon or related to an aeon, and both of them ended up in the garden & eventually without any memories in part because of their connection to an aeon.

#w the sanctus medicus disciples: i've also considered that they were aiming to make the lan/yaoshi “war” worse thru yanqing's death #w the aeon garden of recollection = maybe they're like. pieces of time? the aeons before they became aeons but frozen in time #the argument *for* vidyadhara yanqing is that parts of qingzu's lies *are* true. just not the whole of them. #i could also see him being connected to shuhu somehow tbh. we still don't have a real design there #there's also the. souls thing. with his swords & w the abundance & w luocha & with souls carried by/in birds #whatever his lineage is it like... needs to be dangerous for him to be in some way. if not there's no reason not to say really #hsr #thoughts #yanqing #honkai star rail

[strawberryteabunny]

Rome: Doria Pamphilj Gallery

This is an absolutely gorgeous palace/gallery that was one of my favorite places to visit on this trip! There’s also a café in the garden and the trees had ripe oranges 🍊

Coord rundown:

Skirt: BTSSB Cross Rose

Blouse: Gunne Sax

Bustier: offbrand

Socks: Innocent World

Bloomers: Fan + Friend

Shoes: Cotton Candy Feet

#lolita fashion #classic lolita #oldschool lolita #egl fashion #baby the stars shine bright #the pic is edited bc I was on my own and could not take a coord pic in the actual garden bc nowhere to prop my phone :( #had to go to this corridor a few feet away lol #I was losing my mind at ripe oranges and lemons on trees all over Rome #like we have nothing growing yet where I live p much and they have ripe fruit!!! incredible #citrus trees are so pretty too #this gallery was super empty too when I came which was really nice #mine

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

I love going to the local botanical gardens and being the Most Annoying Autistic alive

like I'm sorry but if a bird talks to me I am going to talk back these are Excellent Sound and I am going to Make Them

I have been honking at a goose for several minutes I'm having the time of my life

#lula's life #birds #I feel it's important to mention that I do in fact have a knack for mimicking bird sounds with decent accuracy #not all of them but a not insignificant amount #really impressed a guy once with my little wattlebird impression #he was trying to describe it to me so I could help ID it and we narrowed it down #to either little wattlebird or red wattlebird #I luckily had a lot of experience mimicking little wattlebirds because they frequent my parents garden #I'm also Very Good at goose honks

[ladylingua]

I have a very genuine question about the tipping post I promise I didnt read it in bad faith: are people who simply cannot afford to tip not “allowed” to eat out? I’m just thinking about how it works where I am from and while tipping is the norm here if someone doesn’t tip because they can’t afford it it really isn’t a big deal (+tipping norm here us only 10%). so if a poor family goes out to eat to celebrate something and they can barely afford the meal would they still be expected to tip 20% because they shouldn’t eat out if they cant afford it? thank you in advance I’m really curious

If it helps, don’t think of the tip as a separate thing. It is part of the cost of your meal. So if you cannot afford to pay for the cost of the meal including the tip you cannot afford to eat at that restaurant. This is something I myself have to calculate when I’m deciding if I want to eat at a particular restaurant- if I have $15 I can’t go to a restaurant and order a $20 entrée and then refuse to pay the remaining cost, and likewise if I have $15 I can’t order a $15 entrée and expect not to pay the server for their service.

Now that doesn't mean families who can't afford a pricy restaurant can't eat out at all. Since it is a % of your bill you can try to go for a cheaper restaurant (smaller bill = smaller tip), or if you go to a counter service place where you serve yourself you’re not expected to tip 20% (sometimes they have a jar out you could kindly throw a dollar or more in, but there is much less expectation to tip because the workers at a place like that receive a full minimum wage, more on that in a sec). I will also say in my lived experience poor families in America understand and tip well, I’ve almost exclusively been under tipped by wealthy people (which is what kicked off the debate on twitter- if your bill is $700 then you obviously can afford to tip a full 20%, no destitute families are spending $700 on one meal).

Technically speaking you can get away with 18% as a tip, and if you go down to 15% your waiter will think you’re cheap and be annoyed (15% definitely implies you were unhappy with their service) but that is the lowest possible threshold of acceptability. 10% is not an acceptable rate here, and 20% is now the expected norm for good service, and going up from there for great service. And I would never, ever not tip at all. I can only imagine not tipping if like the server had done something deeply offensive or dangerous or something. I've never encountered a situation where I felt the server didn't deserve any tip at all.

Because you’ve asked in genuine good faith I’m going to provide some more context to help you understand a bit more why this is the way it is-

Waitstaff in america are wildly underpaid. Our federal government assumes the tips are part of their expected income, and so a) they are taxed on assumed tips and b) it is legal to pay them less than standard minimum wage. Currently the tipped federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Now, states set their own individual rates so some states do better, but $2.13/hr is the lowest they can all legally go. And you’ll notice in that link it mentions the assumed tips and taxing them. I said on my original post, when I worked as a tipped waitress I made $2.68/hr and sometimes my biweekly paycheck was like $60 total. Imagine trying to survive on $120 a month, you absolutely cannot. Tips made up my actual wage, and were the paycheck I depended on to pay for my basic needs. I relied directly on customers to choose to do the social convention of tipping for survival, and when someone would choose to do otherwise it was utterly devastating.

Another thing customers sometimes don’t realize is your waiter may not be allowed to keep all of the tip themselves. It’s a common practice to pool tips amongst all the waitstaff and then divide them equally, and many places require that you tip out other employees there. So if you give me $10 as a tip I might be actually giving a large chunk of that to bussers, bartenders, etc. Or maybe we pool tips and someone else stiffed my colleague so now all of us are sharing your $10 tip. So also keep in mind that the money you leave as a tip very often does not go entirely to the actual waiter, so a big tip can actually become pretty small much faster than you would think.

(and that's just legal practices, wage theft and illegal practices run rampant in the restaurant industry, just fyi)

If you are wondering why tipping culture here is so grim, it is because of slavery. Tipping got big here as a way to keep forcing Black Americans into working for free, now with a small tip but still no actual wage. It was designed for oppression. Waitstaff are overwhelmingly not wealthy people. It is very common for them to be on food stamps, require housing assistance, or to otherwise be living under the poverty line. If you are eating out and not tipping because you yourself are poor, you are taking money out of someone else’s poverty wages to do so. When we debate minimum wage here in america, conservatives are really good at painting a picture of waitstaff being perky middle class college kids making an extra buck, or teens from wealthy homes wanting some spending money. There is an implication that they don't really need the money that badly. That is not the reality of who makes up most serving jobs in america. Minimum wage workers are likely to be in poverty, they’re likely to be women and specifically they’re likely to be women of color. Americans of color are significantly more likely to be working at minimum wage than white americans. There is a pretty sizeable number of minimum wage workers who are over 50, and a not insignificant amount of them who are mothers who support their families. There are also those teens who just want extra cash, and they deserve good compensation for their hard work too, don’t get me wrong, but they are only a portion of who makes up the minimum wage workforce.

If you’re like “But that’s such a shitty system, you’re saying it’s pitting poor people against each other for basic human comforts!” yup. I 100% agree. I am a vocal proponent of raising the minimum wage for that reason. I also advocate for a Universal Basic Income, because I understand that when it comes to small mom & pop restaurants the owners aren’t always making a ton of money either and it seems like truly no one is winning in this system. It is set up to oppress and to demean and to grind us all down. There are lots of orgs in America that are fighting to improve the system, or to radically change the system. There are also restaurants that have tried to do things differently- there’s a wine bar in my city that says specifically on their menu that their wine is more expensive because they pay their workers a true livable wage so there is no tipping there. Instead as a customer I pay a higher upfront cost that covers the true expense of running the bar- including server wages. I love that, I wish more places would do things like that. In the meantime, when I’m choosing where to eat I factor in a tip of 20% when calculating my estimated bill, because paying for service is part of the cost.

Refusing to tip fully in america is not doing anything to change the system. It does not make restaurant owners rethink their pay structure, it does not put pressure on our government to fix minimum wage, it does not make a political statement. It just means your server is going home wondering if they can afford their own meal that night.

Thank you for asking for clarity, I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask more if you have any remaining confusion or are curious about other aspects of american culture. If I can answer and the questions are respectful, I am happy to reply!

#also fwiw #you know those big american chain restaurants people like to make fun of? #like olive garden or red lobster or applebees or whatever? #a lot of the appeal of those types of restaurants is they make a big production over you as a customer like you're at a high end restaurant #but the prices are much lower than an actual nice restaurant #so that is why so many americans view going to outback steakhouse as a big treat #it's not that we don't know what a good steakhouse is #it's that those places give you that service but your steak is $20.99 #and if you are like 'ha! my family wishes they could afford chilis" #no yeah those places are not cheap i feel you #but that's exactly the appeal of those big chains #a real nyc steakhouse starts at like $40 for steaks #and goes up from there #now look at outback's menu #now you get it? #so yeah if you're not a wealthy family and you have a celebration coming up you look for a restaurant in that vein

[heywriters]

what is the one food or ingredient you avoid simply because it was in every meal you had as a kid and you're sick of it? mine is zucchini

#it doesn't have to taste bad or be bad #you're just TIRED of it #food #random question #not writing related #per se #og #our garden always put out buku zucchini #and my mom hated waste #but every year she would plant it #so every year it was in every single family meal #she would even dehydrate it so we could eat it during the winter #i might be made of zucchini now

[variousqueerthings]

actually you know whose reaction I'd be really curious about, potentially coming across fourteen in the shops? Francine!

#francine jones #martha jones #the doctor #dw #doctor who #the (second?) last time they saw each other she nodded to him #and i tend to interpret that as a mix of 'thank you for talking me down' 'hey we survived hell together' and 'thank goodness #martha is coming back to us and you and i both know it's the right thing even though i know you're a fucking mess too but also pls go' #not in the sense that martha was trapped with ten but that ten maybe Could have convinced her to stay potentially #or even just that francine was afraid that ten might do so/martha could possibly choose ten over them #also just that in some ways the jones fam saw the doctor and the master being An Terrifying Other Species moreso than most #there's that relief when martha comes back like they weren't sure she'd be walking back inside #so they dont end it on Bad terms technically #but also potentially... sees fourteen and it's a trigger? sees fourteen and is afraid for martha? #sees fourteen and assumes the end of the world is coming back? sees fourteen and is just... oh... hoped id never see you again #sees fourteen and it's an awkward british 'how have things been? good. you? yeah good. got a garden now. oh that's nice' #(was francine there when martha was on that joint call -- she was wasnt she? #i cannot remember if there's any Looks between them there that indicate how she feels about ten at that point) #anyway i think francine should've been in martha's final scene i think francine was the most important part of martha's life #that symbolised the ways that ten had affected that life #and seeing how francine potentially felt after end of time would have been such a strong indicator of how that story ended there #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers

[likegoldintheair]

i officially did my last day of internship yesterday and immediately woke up with a fever today i feel like there's probably a connection there somehow

#i also got booked for my first real shift #before the day was even over #and before i have even signed any kind of contract #so i guess i really did do a good job during these ten weeks #also. yesterday was such a fun day #we (maria & i) had worked really hard all week to put together a plant- & seed library #where people could exchange plants etc for free #and it was such a success! #people LOVED it #some even stayed and had a coffee and talked about gardening and gave each other #tips on how to grow tomatoes and herbs #or when to plant certain seeds #it was such a great way to end the internship honestly #literally left feeling full of joy and love

[denydestiny-doodles]

@heropartnerweek day 6: alone

without you in the holehills, moments before escape, moments before arrival

#denydestiny draws #pocket monsters mysterious dungeons #sam and peter from paradise #it's a short moment of game and you have hydreigon but. times i felt alone in gates were here and the worldcore #i think it could be possible for munna to talk up her plan to partner. everything's working out for her before the holehills fight #she's got her gang on her side. and on the other side is hydreigon telling hero they're walking into an ambush #but in the attack munna leaves partner unguarded. so partner travels through the caves because they aren't stuck. and hero runs to them #not this moment though. in this moment they're without each other #one more thing i will say is sam the oshawott is not impressed but. and i didn't know how to make this clear. they're not mad at her? just- #sam is just feeling like we could've talked this out. this didn't have to happen. we could be bonding over gardening rn munna

[trans-cuchulainn]

watching black sails while having a popular post about knights sure is making me think about pirates and knights as very specific romantic ideals of violent men bound to each other by oaths, one ostensibly within the law and one emphatically outside of it

#when i saw a gender doctor to get my top surgery referral we talked about gender incongruence in childhood and pretty much all i could offer #was the fact that i spent so much of my childhood dressed as a pirate #and we talked about knights and pirates as the two options for transmasc gender-affirming cosplay lol #either conceal everything through bulky layers of armour or wear huge floofy shirts #i am sure there are transmascs who were neither #but because i was a swallows & amazons kid i was a 'change your name and be a pirate' kid and. well. #my cousin however was the knight child among us and i was roped into dressing up and fighting her in the back garden #which i did with glee not least because i enjoyed an excuse to fight my cousin who frankly is quite tiring #so. definitely some knight moments. but pirates came first #knightblogging #kind of. #i don't have a pirate tag #knight-pirate continuum #is a tag now though

[heffrondriving]

🌼 In Bloom 🌼

#yeah i'll say it again: i am just positively infatuated with kendall in this shirt <3 #god his fits this tour have been pure serving. the tucked shirts and pop punk waist plaid + ripped jeans (even literally ajajaja) and round #sunglasses and miami sunnies and twinning with carlos and even beige fisherman schmidt with the hat drip....stg i could go on forever #also the tank tops with red & black pattern/starry pyjama pants!!! and the shiny pink jackets they wore for madison square garden!!! #and we can't ever forget the pride slash trans flags that he was vv gentle with bc we stan an iconic supportive king!!! [loot dropped: 👑] #DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON KEN WITH THE ELECTRIC GUITAR BC EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT I FEEL LIKE JUMPING RIGHT INTO A RUSSIAN SINKHOLE #AND PSA BUT COWBOY HAT KENDALL CROONING COUNTRY SONGS I WAMNA KISS HIS CHEEK COUNTRY BOY I LOVE YOUUU #i'll forgive my mild gripe with the dad hat that's welded to his head (freethefloof2k22!!!) bc this man is gorgeously glowing onstage 😍 #btr #big time rush #kendall schmidt #forever tour #btr forever tour #photoset #edit #mine #lockscreen #wallpaper #rusher #btredit #kendork #stop it forever #a perfect original #big time concerts #had a little too much fun with this comfort edit but i rlly like the way it turned out??? the colours are just mwah c'est magnifique :'> #i'd love to do concert edits of the other boys but i'm mad lazy and looking at tour photos makes me too emotionally unstable :/ #also every time i see 'in bloom' my mind immediately goes to both the nirvana and the neck deep song so um. ✨ the more you know ✨ #and i think there's something else written on this shirt just below the flowers but i can't be bothered to rectify the caption anymore >_> #in conclusion: i love kendall francis schmidt with everything that i've got and i'd risk it all for him. if you even care btw

[darkvolley]

Do you think when Zexion gives Riku that speech about how it's Riku's fault the islands fell to darkness it's also at least partially Zexion projecting how he feels about himself onto Riku

#from 3 we do know he puts some of the blame on himself #he definitely does think that even tho he was a kid if he had just done SOMETHING maybe be could have prevented radiant garden from falling #and considering his own descent into darkness he probably thinks riku cant emerge from that same darkness either #like as if rikus making the same 'mistakes' as him so he thinks rikus gonna end up just like him. or is already like him. #it just sounds so much like everything he says to riku he might say about himself ya know

[razzberriezz]

Fashion Dreamer 50 Day (but not really) Challenge: Blue

As soon as Fantasy Fair was announced I knew I was going to save this prompt for it, since Morpho butterflies are my favourite!! Unfortunately, since the event has been temporarily suspended, I wasn't able to claim all the designs in time, so I could only complete the type A set...! Relying on the Pop-Up Area though, I think my guy still resembles a butterfly - the Pipevine Swallowtail!

Challenge Prompts

(Images of the butterflies I'm referring to are under the cut; please take note if you have a phobia of insects or the like!)

#fashion dreamer #my.fashion.dreamer.posts #fd 50 day challenge #i love butterflies a lot. the butterfly garden here is so gorgeous and calming when there aren't kids around #we don't have a lot of exotic butterflies tho so it's a LOT of lime butterflies (some of them could be descendants of my lime family omg)

[incorrectpinescone]

Wirt: oh look! are we standing under mistletoe right now? wow so romantic! haha 💕

Dipper: close, but that’s actually that’s holly, Wirt. look at the berries and the shape of the leaves. it’s completely different. whoever put this up doesn’t know their stuff. but i can teach you more about plant identification if you want ❤️

Wirt: sure. thanks.

Dipper, later: oh. fuck.

#incorrect quotes #dipper pines #gf dipper #gravity falls #dipper #otgw #over the garden wall #otgw wirt #pinescone #that’s a good one anon thanks for the ask! #dipper upon realising: fUCK I could have gotten a kiss! #wirt: we can still kiss-

[boygirlctommy]

QOTD: Have you ever seen a bear in person? Where were you? Is there a story to go with it?

i live in the woods, i see bears all the time! when i was a kid, my gym teacher chased a bear off the soccer field and into the woods. my whole class assumed she was going to die and we mourned her (it was only her first day working at our school lol) she was in fact fine but i still dont know WHY she thought that was a good plan

#my post #i have so many bear stories #one time a soccer game got cancelled bcus a bear just walked onto the field. #bear hung out in my neighbors tree and the cops had to chase it away #bear walked into my neighbors yard while she was gardening and we were yelling at her through the window #was hiking w my grandma and my cousins and a bear walked onto the path and we ran back home lol #me and my friend named the bear that lived near her house Felicia ^_^ #when i was little i used to leave a little bit of pudding at the bottom of the cup so that the bears could have a snack #i love bears i want to pet one so bad man